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Category Archives: Inequality
Toxic Contagion – Funds, Food and Pharma
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale Farmers … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Big Pharma, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Big Ag, Big Pharma, BlackRock, Corporate Globalization, Economics, empire, food sovereignty, geopolitics, Global Food System, grain, IMF, imperialism, industrial farms, Monoculture, Neoliberalism, Oakland Institute, Pandemic, small farms, Technocracy, World Bank, WTO
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Is the United States a Failed Society?
The facts have become too dire to ignore any longer. By Chad Mulligan Source: Hipcrime Vocab I’d like to pose a question I’ve been dancing around for the last couple of posts: Is the United States a failed society? That may seem … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, culture, deaths of despair, Dystopia, Economics, empire, Failed State, Global Economy, life expectancy, Mass Shootings, Oligarchy, Public Health, society, Sociology, sociopathy
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America’s Social Contract Is Broken
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds I do not claim any expertise in social contract theory, but in broad brush we can delineate two implicit contracts: one between the citizenry and the state (government) and another between citizens. We … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Banana Republics, Corruption, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, feudalism'capitalism, financial crisis, Government, Income Inequality, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, social contract, Trickle down economics
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Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages and High Unemployment at the Same Time
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds This is how we’ll end up with severe shortages of truly skilled labor and high unemployment of those who lack the necessary skills. The labor force and the job market are referred to as if … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Oligarchy, recession, Retirement, Self-Relience, skilled labor, unemployment, Work
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The New Normal: Death Spirals and Speculative Frenzies
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds There is an element of inevitability in play, but it isn’t about central bank bailouts, it’s about Death Spirals and the collapse of unsustainable systems. The vapid discussions about “soft” or “hard” … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Oligarchy, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Autocracy, Bailouts, central banks, currency devaluation, Death Spirals, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Inflation, New Normal, Oligarchy, Titanic
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Prepare to Be Bled Dry by a Decade of Stagflation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The Great Moderation of low inflation and soaring assets has ended. Welcome to the death by a thousand cuts of stagflation. It was all so easy in the good old days of the past 25 years: … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged A Great Stagflation, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Globalization, Hyper-financialization, hyper-globalization, Inflation, stagflation
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Distract, Divide and Conquer: The Painful Truth About the State of Our Union
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Militarization, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged AI, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Covid-19, deepfakes, disinformation, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, FBI, Health Care, imperialism, Inflation, Infrastructure, Joe Biden, Militarism, national debt, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Public Health, trade deficit, Twitter
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The Cost Of Living Has Become Extremely Oppressive And 57 Percent Of Americans Cannot Afford A $1,000 Emergency Expense
By Michael Snyder Source: Activist Post I don’t have to tell you that your money doesn’t go as far as it once did. You see it every time that you go shopping. Our leaders flooded the system with money and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Cost of Living, Economic Collapse, Economics, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, food crisis, Housing Crisis, Inflation, McDonalds, Technocracy, Unilever
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